The sun., 1887-03-30

until at last he Is driven to look for refuge in
the United States.
Mr.. PEIxoTrO found the condition OF these
Jews "dcplorablc past all words" although
they are "as good and worthy people as the
Israelites In the United Statcs" They can
read and write, as the drunken peasants OF
Russia and Roumanla cannot do, so that the
King Of Roumania expressed surprise To
him that they seemed "to be 80 very low !"
in comparison with the Jews OF England and
this country. They are tile best pupils In
our public Schools" said the King, "and
they are the brightest in all the professions
TO which they are admitted, and still look ut
them, see how grovelling and base they are"
Mr.. PEIxoTTO, Of course, replied that tho
better condition Of the race In England and
America was due to its opportunity for free
development In those countries.
There Is, accordingly, good reason to ex-
pect continuance Of the recent large jew
ish immigration to the United States, and
its proportions may be greatly increased,
for, as Mr.. PEIxoTTo remarks, not only In
Russia and Roumania, but also wherever the
apti-Semitic rage prevails, I" there are millions
of (sraelites who believe that the time has
come when there must be a change"
He therefore calls upon his fellow Israeli
ties already here and competent to render
the aid, to assist the efforts which few
American Jews are now making to direct
this great immigration to agricultural
colonies to be planted for the new
comers. These Jews, though poor, are not
paupers, the Board Of Emigration having
returned rs such only 27 out Of the 10000 who
have landed during the last two years.
They come here. Mr. PEIxoTTo says. each
one OF them, with little money, perhaps
$50 to 500; but their tendency Is to stop In
New York, where $4,000 Of the $4,000 have re-
mained, to increase the amount Of poverty
here, and add fuel to the flame Of race preju-
dice. II 100000 jews he remarks very just
~, should come into this city within the next
thirty years, "there will creep up a spirit Of
enmity, and there will be. bitter relations
here, as there are In old Europe to-day"
The misery of the 10000 or $4,000 Jews
crowded In the tenement houses of Hester,
Forsyth, and Division streets is already
great enough
Accordingly he urges the formation of q
colonization society in New York, with
branches in every city of the Union. and,
with the cooperation Of Jews throughout
Europe to obtain means for providing this
food OF immigration with homes In the
country. In hasty way the experiment Of
establishing Jewish colonies in different
parts of the United States has been made
during the last five years. The first colony
was put upon badly chosen ground in
Louisiana, and proved unsuccessful, as did
also colonies at CotOpaxi, in the highlands
of Colorado; Estelleville, in New Jersey;
Monteflore, in Pratt county. Kansas, and
Waterview, in Virginia. Another colony,
called New Odessa, in southern Oregon,
tlourished remarkably for time, but
its higher conceptions and communis-
tic tendencies sacrificed its material
strength. and 1t soon dwindled into
twelve colonists, the rest scattering in all
directions" But the Alliance colony, near
Vineland, in New Jersey, has prospered and
now contains between seventy and eighty
families; and Carmel colony, also in that
State, is doing very well. Beersheba in
Kansas consists OF eighteen families, and
shows only moderate degree of progress,
but other Jewish colonies in that State have
been more successful. A colony ut Painted
Woods, in Dakota, now comprises over fifty
families, and is very near to being self-sus-
tanning though apparently presenting no
tiattcring prospects.
So far, then, the colonization projects have
not been very successful, probably because
of the indisposition OF the Jews to agri-
cultural pursuits, though Mr.. PErxoTro
seems to be confident that their preiudices in
that respect may be overcome. He speaks
OF "several Jewish families who have be-
come farmers in the United States, and who
have succeeded admirably, some Of them
having become so skilled in their avocations
as to have actually taken prizes for plough
ing in their several localities" But ap-
parently they are the exceptions, and we
think il somewhat doubtful whether any
scheme to establish the Jews in agricultural
colonies would be permanently successful